Publication

Through a comparison of cases in Mozambique and Ghana, this working paper analyzes why and how African states engage in developing productive industries and with what success. It argues that successful state interventions depend on four factors: sustained political support by the government leadership; the existence of an embedded and mediating bureaucracy; changing the ‘rules of the game’ which govern the distribution of economic benefits and resources; and the organization of industry actors and institutionalized interaction between industry actors and state actors.